Machine for punching jacquard-cards.



H. SAURBR. MACHINE FOB PUNOHING JACQUARD CARDS.

APPLIUATIOI FILED JULY 29, 1013. 1,104,551. Patented July 21, 1914 3 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

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MACHINE FOB PUNCHINGJAGQUARD CARDS.

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MACHINE FOR PUNCHING JACQUARD-CARDS.

Specification of Letters atent.

Patented July 21, 1914.

Animation and Juiy 2a, i913. serial no, 731,712.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, HIPPDLYT SAUBER, a citizen of the Republic of Switzerland, residing at Arbon, Switzerland, have invented new and useful Improvements in Machines for Punching Jacquard-Cards; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled' in the art to which it appertains to make and use the Same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters oriigures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

In the punching of holes in jacquard cards for use in automatic embroidery machines it is necessary, in addition to the punching of holes by which the movements of the work frame are controlled, to punch also holes by which special functions or indi vidual operations, such, for example, as the throwing into and out of operation of the perforators, the festoon devices, the speed changing devices, etc., are controlled. A hole or group of holes must be punched for the initiation of each of such operations and one for stopping it. Some of these special functions or individual operations are, however, of such a nature that they :must not take place at the same time. It is necessary therefore that a second special function or individual operation of this nature be noti initiated before the first has been stopped. however, difficult for the operator of the machine to remember for the throwing in of which special functions or individual operations he has punched holes in the jacquard card and for the stopping of which of such special' functions or individual o eratioiis he must therefore punch holes. If he does not perform his work accurately breakage in .the automat or jacquard mechanism may subsequently occur when embroidering is carried on under the control of the card punched.

The object of the present invention is to provide controlling or indicating apparatus for machines forl punching jacquard cards used in automatic embroidery machines by ineansof which the card puncher is relieved of the necessity of remembering for the initiation of which of thesejspecial functions or individual operations there have been punched holes and is enabled to tell at any time which special functions or individual operations are initiated according to the Card. This is effected by causing the necessary adjustments of the determining device for the special functions or individual operations to move a controlling device which retains the position to which it has been moved even when the said det-ermllllng device has returned to its zero or normal position.

A form of apparatus constructed in accordance with the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings to which reference will now be had.

In the drawings-Figure 1 is a view partly in elevation and partly in section showing a portion of the pattern board of a machine for punching cards for use in automatic embroidery machines, together with the Punching mechanism so far as it is involved in the present invention and the controlling and indicating mechanism. Fig. 2 is a detail view in section and on a larger scale of the punching mechanism. Fig. 3 is a view in elevation and on a larger scale than that. of Fig. 1 of the controlling and indicating mechanism. Fig. 4 is a view in vertical section looking to the right hand in Fig. 3 and with the segment removed, the plane of section being mainly just to the left of the shaft 41. but partly to the right of the shaft 21. Fig. 5 is a detail view in elevation of the punching mechanism as seen from the side opposite to that represented in Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a detail view in horizontal section through the upper part of the controlling and indicating mechanism shown in Figs. 3 and 4 and on a somewhat larger scale. Fig. 7 is a view in horizont-al section of the controlling and indicating mechanism and on the same scale as Figs. 3 and 4, the plane of section being just above the axis of the shaft 21. Fig. 8 is a detail view in elevation of a portion of the controlling and indicating mechanism on the same scale as Figs. 3 and 4. Fig. 9 is a detail view in elevation of a portion of lthe controlling and indicating mechanism on a larger scale than that of Figs. 3 and 4. Figs. 10 and 11 are detail views of a portion of the punching mechanism shown in Fig. 5 but on a larger scale. Fig. 12 is a detail view in horizontal section of a portion of the controlling and indicating mechanism on the same scale as Figs. 3 and 4. Fig. 13 is a detail view of the punch-selecting slide. Figs. 14, 15 and 16 are detail views of some ofthe indicating disks.

K is the card punchi apparatus, the devices for punchin the oles which control` the movements o the work frame being omitted.

M is the pattern board, the pantograph being removed, and C is the controlling and indicating apparatus.

In the card punching ap aratus 1 is the strip of card to be punche 2 are the perforating punches and 3, see Figs. 1 2 am; 13, is the device which determines which o the punches are in operation and coni ises a slide the underside of which is.formed with a number of recesses 4 so arraisilged that, according to the position of the ide, certain of the four" adjacent perforating punches 2 are caused to operate.

The perforating punches 2 are suspended in a punch carrier 5, see Fig. 2, which can be vertically reciprocated b a system of links and levers 6 and 7. T e levers 7 are mounted upon a shaft 8 u on which is fixed a lever 9, see Fig. 5, the ee end of which is furnished with a roller 10 which works in the groove 11 of a cam 12 fast on a shaft 13 that is driven in an suitable manner by a chain wheel 14. VViien the carrier 5 is lowered those punches 2 above which are locatedirecesses 4, see Fig. 13 merely rest upon the strip of card 1 and do not punch any hole therein, but those punches 2 above which there are no recesses 4 punch holes in the card. When the recesses 4 along the line A-B in Fig. 13 lie above the four punches 2 the slider 3 is in the zero or normal position and none of the four punches 2 punches a hole in the card when the carrier 5 descends. Attached to the slide 3, see Figs. 1 and 2, is one end of a link 15 the other end of which is attached to a lever 16 fixed on a shaft 17. Upon the shaft 17 is fixed a" chain wheel 18 which is in driving connection by mea-ns of a chain 19 with a chain wheel 20 on the controlling and indicating apparatus C, see Figs. 1, 2, and 7.

The chain wheel 20 is fixed upon a shaft 2l upon which is also fixed a toothed seg' ment 22 from which lever 24 projects laterally through a slot in the casing 23. The slide 3 can therefore be readily shifted by moving the lever 24.

The card punching apparatus is such las to enable an interrupted and an uninterrupted operation to be effected, the former in such-wise that after each punching movement the chain wheel 14 can be stopped by means which are not shown. The slide 3 must be returned to its zero or normal position during the movement ofthe wheel 14. This is effected by a disk 25, see Figs. 5, 10 and 11, provided with two lu or rojections 26, 27 having oppositely irecte guide paths or surfaces 28. The disk 25 is lxed upon the shaft 13.

Guided between rollers 30 on the side shield or frame 29 is a rod 31 projecting vertically from which is an arm 32 the upper end of which is furnished with a roller 33 the diameter of which is such that it can pass between the two lugs or projections 26 and 27.

The rod 31 is formed at one part of `its length with teeth 34 meshi into a toothed segment 35 fast on the sha 17, see 2 and 5. If therefore the slide 3 be mov by the rotation of the shaft 17 for the purpose of adjusting it the rod 31 will,also be moved whereby for example the roller 33 will be caused to assume a ition with relation to the lugs or projections 26 and 27 such as shown in Fig. 10. If the' shaft 13 then makes an operative rotation the disk 25 will also rotate and one of the lateral guides or surfaces 28, see Fig. 10, will force the roller 33 into the central position whereby the shaft 17 will be rotated backwardly and the slide 3 and the lever 24 will be brought into their normal or zero positions in which they are shown in Fi 1. The lever 24 occupies this position w en the only holes to be punched are those which control the movements of the work frame and therefore of the fabric.

The toothed se ent 22 which is rigidlxi connectedto the ever 24 gears into a ra 36, see Fi 7, which is mounted to move vertical] tween rollers 37. Attached to this rac see Fig. 4, is a fork 38 which loosely embraces a driver 39 which is provided with two lateral arms 40, see Figs. 7

a shaft 41 of square cross section. shaft is mounted to rotate in bearings at its top and bottom and near its lower end it has fixed on it a disk 42, 4 and 12, formed with two notches 43.

44 is a gear wheel mounted to rotate freely upon a round portion of the rod 41 and having rigidly connected to it an arm 45 on vwhich is mounted a spring pressed pawl 46 adapted to engage the notches 43 of the disk 42. Meshing with the wheel 44 is a toothed segment 47 which is mounted to rotate about a fixed pin 48 and to which is connected one end of a connecting link 49, see Figs. 1, 5 and 7, the other end of which is connected to a lever 50 which receives its motion from a cam 66 on the shaft 13. By means of this mechanism the driver 39 is rotated ste by step in one and the same direction. lpon a rod 51 arra parallel with the shaft 41 in the controlling and indicating apparatus C, see Figs. 4, 6 7, 8 and 9, 14, 15 and 16, are arra dto rotate freely but not to move axially, such as 52', 52" which act as controllin or indicating devices. Certain of the dis such as 52, 52" have at the top four pins 53, see Figs. 14, 16 and other six pins, see Fig. 15.

Rigidly connected to the lrack 36 is a pointer 54 which moves over a scale' 55. The arrangement is such that if the lever 24 be so moved thatL the pointer 54 is placed over 'a particular divislon of the scale the driver a fourth or a sixthv of a rotation according to whether it has four or six pins 53.

The peripheries of some of the disks such as 52f, 52D are provided 'with red and white areas and some of them, as hereinafter explained, are provided with teeth.A When a diskfis rotated there will consequently appear at a window 56 in the casing of the controlling or indicating apparatus a red mark o r a particular number as will` be more fullyiexplained hereinafter. To the `topmost disk 52p, see Fig. 9, is rigidly connected a toothed wheel 57 which gears into two gear wheels 58 and 59. The gear wheel 59 rotates freely `upon a fixed shaft 60 and is rigidly attached to a number disk 61. The gear wheel 58 rotates freely upon a fixed spindle 62 and is rigidly connected-toa disk 52a which has four pins 53. The lowermost number disk 52", see Figs. 4 and 8, is rigidly connected to a toothed wheel `63 which gears into a toothed wheel 64 to which a disk 52 is con- =-nected.

`which cause movement of the work frame the pointer 54 will'y be opposite the mark Embroidery and the slide 3 will be in its zero or normal position. Supposing now holes are tobe punched which subsequently initiate the throwing into operation of the festooning devices in the automatic embroidering machine, the lever 24 will be pushed upwardly until the pointer is opposite 'the mark Festoon. `This causes the slide 3 to be correspondingly adjusted and at the same time the driver 39 to be raised to such a height that its a1 s 40 are brought on a level with the pins 53 of the disk 52 If now the driving mechanism of the card punching apparatus be thrown into operation holes in the card corresponding to festooning will first be punched and the link 49 and the segment 47 will rotate the rod 41 and consequently the driver 39, whereby the disk 52t will be rotated so that, as intended to be indicated in Fig. 3, a red area thereof will appear behin'd the window 56. On the return .of the slide 3 to its zero or normal position the lever 24 will also be returned to the position shown in Fig. 3 but the controlling disk 52t will not be rotated further but will retain its osition. Other special functions or indivi ual movements can now be initiated. Thus for example if the pointer 54 be set opposite the mark Depth of perforation the driver 39 will rotate the controlling disk 52p, se'e Fig. 9, whereby the gear wheel 57 will be rotated and with it the gear wheel 59 and consequently also the number disk 61 so that the fixed pointer 65 will now point to 3 instead of 2, see Fig. 3. Ifh'owever the pointer 54 be set opposite the mark Depth of perforation the driver l39 will rotate the disk 52a whereby lthe number disk 61 will be rotated in the opposite'direction by the gear wheels 58, 57, 59, so that then the pointer 65 would point to 1 instead of 2. If the card puncher then desires to so punch the card that the festooning instruments shall be again thrown out of voperation thereby he must-punch holes by means of which the initiated movements of the festooning instrumentsy shall be again stopped. That this is necessary the card puncher can readil see from the red mark on the controlling isk 52f. `He then 'sets the pointer 54 again opposite the mark Festoon and punches the necessary holes. This causes the controlling disk, 52f to again 'be rotated by the driver 39 so'that a white area appears behind the window and indicates that the perforations for the stoppage of the operations of the festooning instruments have been punched. The card puncher has therefore always before him what interpolated perforations he has made for special functions or individual operations and to stop which hel must punch certain holes before he punches holes for initiating other special or individual operations which might otherwise result in damage lin the automaton. When the card is completely punched the controlling and indicating apparatus should for examplenot exhibit anyy red areas.

I claim:

1. In a machine for punching jacquard cards, the combination of a punch-selecting device, means for operating said device, an indicating device and transmitting mechanism whereby the indicating device is moved to a position of rest with the movement of the selecting device.

2. In a machine for punchinor jacquard cards, the combination of a punc -selecting device, selective means for. shiftingsaid device to di'lferent positions, a' series of indicating devices corresponding to the several positions'of the punch-selecting device, a driver adapted to be moved with the movement of said shifting means into operative relation with the corresponding indicating device, and transmitting mechanism whereby the driver is actuated with the movement of the selecting device.

3. In a machine for punching jacquard cards, the combination 0f a punch-selecting device, selective means for shifting said device to different positions, a series of indi cating disks, a shaft parallel with the series los of disks and adjacent thereto,a driver mounted to slide on said shaft and to rotate therewith and adapted to engage operatively one or' another of said disks, connections whereby the driver is shifted by the operation of tr Ae selective means into operative relation with. one or another of said disks, and transmitting mechanism whereby the shaft is ac- Y tuated with 'the movement of the punch-seinto operative relation with the first named disk or with the transmitting disk, and transmittin mechanism whereby the driver is actuated 1n one direction with the movelment of the selecting device.

5. In a machine for punchino' jacquard cards, the combination of a punc i,selecting device, selective means for shifting said device to different positions, an indicating disk, a transmitting disk reversely geared to the first disk, a shaft parallel with the axes of said disks and adjacent thereto, a driver mounted to slide on said shaft and to rotate therewith and adapted to engage operatively either the indicating disk or the transmitting disk, connections whereby the driver is shifted on the shaft by the operation of the selecting means into operative relation with one or the other of said disks, and transmitting mechanism whereby the shaft is actuated with the movement of the punch-selecting device.

(i. In a machine for punching jacquard cards, the combination of a punch-selecting device,cselective means for shifting said device to different positions, a series of indicating disks, a shaft parallel with the series of disks and adjacent thereto, a driver mounted to slide on said shaft and to rotate therewith and adapted to engage operatively one or another of said disks, a rack operatively connected with the driver to shift the same on the shaft, a gear segment engaging said rack and operatively connected with the selecting means, and transmitting mechanism whereby the shaft is actuated with the movement of the punch-selecting device.

7. In a machine for punching jacquard cards, the combination of a punch-selecting device, selective means for shifting said device to different positions, a series of indicating disks, a shaft parallel with the series of disks and adjacent thereto, a driver mounted to slide on said shaft and to rotate therewith and adapted to engage operatively one or another of said disks, connections whereby the driver is shifted by the operation of the selecting means into voperative relation with one or another of said disks, a ratchet wheel 4on said shaft, an actuating pawl for said ratchet `wheel, a gear carrying said pawl, a segment engaging said gear, and transmittin devices whereby the segment is act-nate with the movement of the punch-select'ng device.

8. In a chine for punching jacquard cards, the combination of a series of punches, actuating devices therefor, a punch-selecting slide, an indicating device, and transmitting mechanism whereby the indicatino' device is moved to a osition of rest. with t 1e movement of the slide.

9. In a machine for punching jacquard cards, the combination of a series of punches,

HIPPOLYT SAUBER.

lVitnesses CARL GULuR, AUoUs'r BUEGG.

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